More than any other book I have read recently, Stefania Pandolfo’s Knot of the Soul made me ask myself time…
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Controversy over French proposal to edit the Quran: A transatlantic perspective
In the interest of informing our English-speaking readers about recent public debates involving questions of religious difference and public life…
Hacking and intentionality
While Ahmed’s descriptive claim is a compelling deconstructive critique of Islamic law, I think hacking will become an untenable tool…
Releasing the umma from geopolitics
Read as a work of care, Cemil Aydın’s book releases the umma-concept from its geopolitical formation. This leaves the umma…
Twitter, scripture and practice: A twessay on #ttQuran
In the name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful #ttQuran What is #ttQuran? We will tell you what…
Secularism and the freedom to transform lives
In this post I explore the case of Bangladesh: the state of secularism there and the tensions and polemics that…
New Peace Brief on the desecration of the Qur’an
Following reports of NATO personnel burning copies of the Qu'ran in Afghanistan, the United States Institute of Peace convened a…
Responses to Qur’an burning in Afghanistan
Reports that NATO personnel had burned copies of the Qur'an first appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, February…
Memorizing the Qur’an at age 10
From noted war correspondent-turned filmmaker Greg Barker, a new documentary, Koran by Heart, which premiers August 1.
What’s wrong with burning the Qur’an?
A Florida church’s plans to burn copies of the Qur’an on September 11 have drawn widespread condemnation, including from the…